On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 16:07 +0100, Jirka Kosek wrote:
> On 1.2.2013 15:45, Shaun McCance wrote:
>
> >> I think that story is easy there. As HTML doesn't offer real distributed
> >> extensibility and lacks mechanism similar to XML namespaces you can't
> >> use ITS on SVG fragment inserted inside HTML document.
> >
> > I thought the HTML5 spec defined including SVG and MathML in such
> > a way that they're implicitly assigned their canonical namespaces
> > when selected with e.g. document.evaluate. Am I misremembering?
>
> Yes, but you can't use for example its:translate attribute on SVG
> element inside HTML5 as prefixed attributes (with the exception of
> xlink:href) are not permitted here.
>
> See:
> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/single-page.html#attributes-0
>
> Very last sentence under table: "No other namespaced attribute can be
> expressed in the HTML syntax."
Ah, right. I was only thinking of matching with global rules.
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Shaun